Monolithically integrated InP wafer-scale 100-channel × 10-GHz AWG and Michelson interferometers for 1-THz-bandwidth optical arbitrary waveform generation

Author

Soares, F.M. ; Baek, J.H. ; Fontaine, N.K. ; Zhou, X. ; Wang, Y. ; Scott, R.P. ; Heritage, J.P. ; Junesand, C. ; Lourdudoss, S. ; Liou, K.Y. ; Hamm, R.A. ; Wang, W. ; Patel, B. ; Vatanapradit, S. ; Gruezke, L.A. ; Tsang, W.T. ; Yoo, S.J.B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Davis, CA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

21-25 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We discuss monolithic integration of a 100-channel AWG with a 10-GHz channel spacing with 100 Michelson-interferometer-based phase- and amplitude-modulators. The AWG showed approximately 10 dB crosstalk, and the twin-integrated devices comprise a 2Â¿ InP wafer.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; Michelson interferometers; amplitude modulation; channel spacing; indium compounds; integrated optics; optical communication; optical crosstalk; optical modulation; optical pulse generation; InP; Michelson interferometers; amplitude modulators; bandwidth 1 THz; channel spacing; crosstalk; frequency 10 GHz; monolithic integration; optical arbitrary waveform generation; phase modulators; twin-integrated devices; wafer-scale AWG; Electrooptic modulators; Indium phosphide; Integrated optics; Interferometers; Laser radar; Optical crosstalk; Optical interferometry; Optical sensors; Phase modulation; Quantum wells;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-884-1

Type

conf

Filename

5465526